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Can co-operatives play a role in a transition to socialism?
You remove the boss and the owners, leaving workers equal in management and production: job done? Not quite, but co-ops should not be casually dismissed either, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
NO FANTASY: Co-operatives can be part of the normal running of everyday capitalism without any obvious progressive political agenda
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DAVID HORSLEY remembers the remarkable life and death of US black revolutionary George Jackson, whose politically passionate prison letters were published as Soledad Brother
Cuban trade union federation CTC leader OSNAY MIGUEL COLINA speaks to Ben Chacko about life and work under a crippling US siege
A part of the British empire’s network of slavery, today the Caribbean island of Nevis faces a new form of exploitation in the form of crypto-colonialism, CLAUDIA WEBBE writes
Challenges from the unscrupulous misuse of AI to steal actors’ voice and physical likenesses is being met with a firm union response, writes LYNDA ROOKE
MANY socialists are members of co-operatives — from choosing to shop in their local Co-op supermarket or banking with the Nationwide Building Society, to playing a more active part in housing or other co-operatives.
For many, whatever their view of the quality of the goods and services, their membership provides the satisfaction of engaging with a body that is not solely concerned with making a profit for its shareholders.
But what role can co-operatives play beyond this, for example helping to secure a better, socialist, future?
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